The added value of multislice SPECT/CT in patients with equivocal bony metastasis from carcinoma of the prostate

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 706-713

  Helyar, Vincent ^a   Mohan, Hosahalli K ^b   Barwick, Tara ^b   Livieratos, Lefteris ^b   Gnanasegaran, Gopinath ^b   Clarke, Susan E M ^b   Fogelman, Ignac ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bony metastasis; Prostate cancer; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE TRACING; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE TUMOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77952093471     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1334-3     Document Type: Article

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